Come for the fireworks. Stay for the eviscerations. Follow the analysis. And join in the anathemata. My latest—which is to be an appendix to the forthcoming The Conscientious Conservative—, which disposes of the claims of Trump, Trumpism, and the followers of either, the Trumpshirts, to be either conservative, in the Anglo-American sense of that term,Continue reading “I have been remiss in not mentioning this here.”
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Hymn for the End of Term
In the last days of the era BB—Before Beryl—, an old friendly acquaintance … wait. Let me explain. Some decades ago, during the Bubble, there was a website. Its gimmick was to provide reviews of consumer products—books and films, fatally, included—by actual consumers thereof. Royalties were based upon, ostensibly, the quality of the reviews asContinue reading “Hymn for the End of Term”
A Republic … if you can keep it.
Political violence, whatever its source or support, its affiliation or who are its apologists, is never acceptable in this Republic. We do not and cannot permit it, any more than we can and do permit politics to go about in uniform or in vestments. Nor does it matter to our purpose ‘cui bono?’, or ifContinue reading “A Republic … if you can keep it.”
Beryl-ing down the highway (and presumably flirtin’ with disaster)*…
Lost power MON 8 JUL. Got it back in fits and starts about 15 hours later. Which is more than a lot of town can say, including, critically, no few shops. Got Internet back only on FRI 12 JUL. (First site checked: MLB.com, of course.) Also on FRI, the family had to bid farewell toContinue reading “Beryl-ing down the highway (and presumably flirtin’ with disaster)*…”
Finis Palæstinæ. Delenda est.
It is impressed upon me that those with close personal ties to the region, or with family present in the warzone, particularly but by no means exclusively Jews or Israelis, may find my necessary afterword too much to read as they mourn or wait in dreadful suspense for news of their families, friends, and neighbors.Continue reading “Finis Palæstinæ. Delenda est.”
The end of the beginning
Well. That was an amusing and instructive four-and-twenty hours. And the lessons appointed for the feast of Saint John Baptist were remarkably apt to it. This is going to be a very quick and no-frills commentary. Let us rehearse what happened. Gruppa Vagnera pulled out of the line, and, led by its proprietor, Yevgeny ViktorovichContinue reading “The end of the beginning”
A Commination: Against VV Putin
Little Volodya, your doom is upon you. Hear me, Vladimir Vladimirovich! And hear me also, you sedulous, credulous bastard bootlicker and bumboy to Putin, Alyaksandr Ryhoravich Lukashenka! May all free peoples hear me: not only in Ukraine and in the world, but those in Russia who groan beneath your more than Mongol yoke, and whoContinue reading “A Commination: Against VV Putin”
Markham Shaw Pyle, author & historian 